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  • #602381
    longarekel
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    The previous tanach trivia thread has mysteriously disappeared from the CR, so I’m starting a new one. What is another name for Mordechai? Post your answers here as well as any other tanach trivia you might have.

    #908293
    Logician
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    Psachyah (Yerushalm).

    What about another name for Hasuch, and why (2) ?

    #908294
    bekitzur
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    Daniel

    #908295
    morahmom
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    Doniel, but I can’t remember why.

    #908296
    Sam2
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    Logician: Asking a Mefurash Gemara in Megillah on Erev Purim?

    #908297
    Logician
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    Yes, for some reason people I know get confused with it.

    Where is the source for “Doniel” ?

    #908298
    Logician
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    Oh was I confused !

    I mixed up the order, and thought everyone was answering the OP, not me!

    Ok, a little harder – what is another name in the megilah some identify as Daniel ?

    And from the same source – who was Charvonah ?

    #908299
    sam4321
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    Memuchan = Daniel (haman and Daniel equal to 95 that is why his name was changed to memuchan not to associate tzaddik and rasha ,Meom Loez),Charvonah = Eliyahu Hanavi.

    #908300
    writersoul
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    Purim Torah: What is the happiest DAY of the year, what is the saddest DAY of the year, and what is the source?

    If you heard it elsewhere, please don’t say— wait for someone to figure it out.

    #908301
    Logician
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    How old was Esther when taken to the king ?

    #908302
    longarekel
    Member

    writersoul: enlighten us please. Logician: some say she was 75. Where is Pesach alluded to in the megilla?

    #908303
    writersoul
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    The happiest day is the last day of Tammuz and the saddest is the last day of Shvat.

    Can anyone guess why?

    #908304
    Logician
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    longarekel – va’yavor mordechai.

    writersoul – guess you never stop being marbeh and mimaet.

    #908305
    longarekel
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    writersoul: you are assuming that marbim besimcha keeps getting stronger and stronger until av when one is mema’et besimcha and the simcha gets less and less until adar. However I don’t think this is correct. Marbim Besimcha is through Nissan at most, and Mema’atim Besimcha is through Tisha B’av or a few days after. Also, I am not aware of any progression (on a simple level. On a not-so-simple level there is a progression but I don’t think that’s what you meant).

    #908306
    writersoul
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    longarekel: It’s Purim Torah. I explicitly stated that at first. And who says that it stops? (Yes, I mean it is common sense, but don’t destruct my logic!)

    Now, for some Pesach Torah: Who was the first PERSON to perform the mitzvah of vehigadeta lebincha bayom hahu and why him/her?

    If you’ve heard it, wait for people to try on their own.

    I stumped my whole family with this one last seder night.

    #908307
    longarekel
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    writersoul: you should always be marbe b’simcha. Your Pesach Torah stumped me too. Is it a trick question? Did you mean Moshe Rabbeinu since he said the mitzva on Pesach?

    #908308
    writersoul
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    longarekel: I’m going to take that as a bracha. AMEIN!!!

    And you’re on the right track, but I mean PERFORMING the mitzvah— and there’s a very specific reason why. You’ll be kicking yourself—I know I was when I was first told the answer. It’s not a trick— it’s extremely logical.

    Hint: You don’t need to retell the story for newborn babies.

    That was a HUGE hint, by the way. Just let your thoughts wander.

    I’d better start thinking up some Shavuos Torah…

    #908309
    Wisey
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    I would guess Avraham sine we know he kept Pesach from the ????? that he made and the hint about newborn babies was referring to Yitzchak’s birth on Pesach. I would like to know if I got it right.

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